GUN VIOLENCE IN AMERICA: FOR WHO THE BELL TOLLS NEXT.

Just five people shy of Sandy Hook elementary school mass shooting incident that claimed 26 lives, the Uvalde Texas Robb elementary school mass shooting at 21 victims, now ranks among the highest grossing gun carnage in America. It is sad that such frequent blood spilling has tragically become part of our culture as a society. May the souls of the killed now rest.

25th AMENDMENT: ITS NOW ALL CRICKET.

Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi once questioned former President Donald John Trump's fitness to remain in office due to what she claimed was his declining mental capacity. Does anyone know what Madam Speaker presently thinks about the incontrovertible case which America is now saddled with? Just curious!

WHO WILL REBUILD UKRAINE?

The West should convert frozen Russian assets, both state's and oligarchs' owned, into a full seizure and set them aside for the future rebuilding of Ukraine. Like the Marshal Plan, call it the Putin Plan.

A HERO IS BORN.

I am staying put. I will not run away and abandon my people. The fight is here in Ukraine. What I need are weapons and ammunitions, not a ride out of town like former Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani - President Volodymyr Zelensky.

IT IS WHAT IT IS.

"There is too much hate in America because there is too much anger in America." - Trevor Noah.

WORD!

A life without challenges is not a life lived at all. A life lived is a life that has problems, confronts problems, solves problems and then learns from problems. - Tunde Fashola.

NOW, YOU KNOW.

When fishing for love, bait with your heart and not your brain, because you cannot rationalize love. - Mark Twain.

JUST THE FACT.

In our country, you can shoot and kill a nigger, but you better not hurt a gay person’s feelings - Dave Chappelle

DO YOU?.

“What you believe in can only be defined by what you’re willing to risk for it." - Stuart Scheller.

HEDGE YOUR CRISIS.

Never get in bed with a woman whose problems are worse than yours. - Chicago PD.

PROBLEM SOLVED.

'The best way to keep peace is to be ready to destroy evil. If you Pearl Harbor me, I Nagasaki you.' - Ted Nugent.

OUR SHARED HUMANITY.

Empathy is at the heart of who we are as human beings. - Cardinal Matthew Kukah.

WORDS ON MARBLE.

"Birth is agony. Life is hard. Death is cruel." - Japanese pithy.

REPENT OR PERISH - POPE.

Homosexuality is a sin. It is not ordained by God, therefore same sex marriage cannot be blessed by the church - Pope Francis.

CANCEL CULTURE IS CORROSIVE.


FOR SAKE OF COUNTRY.


MAGA LIVES ON: NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER!

TWITTER IS BORING WITHOUT HIS TWEETS. #RestorePresidentTrump'sTwitterHandle.


WORD.

"If you cannot speak the truth when it matters, then nothing else you says matters.” - Tucker Carlson.

#MeToo MOVEMENT: A BAD NEWS GONE CRAZY.

"To all the women who testified, we may have different truth, but I have a great remorse for all of you. I have great remorse for all of the men and women going through this crisis right now in our country. You know, the movement started basically with me, and I think what happened, you know, I was the first example, and now there are thousands of men who are being accused and a regeneration of things that I think none of us understood. I’m not going to say these aren’t great people. I had wonderful times with these people. I’m just genuinely confused. Men are confused about this issue. We are going through this #MeToo movement crisis right now in this country." - Harvey Weinstein.


RON DELLUMS: UNAPOLOGETICALLY RADICAL.

"If it’s radical to oppose the insanity and cruelty of the Vietnam War, if it’s radical to oppose racism and sexism and all other forms of oppression, if it’s radical to want to alleviate poverty, hunger, disease, homelessness, and other forms of human misery, then I’m proud to be called a radical.” - Ron Vernie Dellums.


WHAT REALLY MATTERS IN LIFE - STEVE JOBS

“I reached the pinnacle of success in the business world. In others’ eyes, my life is an epitome of success. However, aside from work, I have little joy. Non-stop pursuing of wealth will only turn a person into a twisted being, just like me. God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone’s heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth. Memories precipitated by love is the only true riches which will follow you, accompany you, giving you strength and light to go on. The most expensive bed in the world is the sick bed. You can employ someone to drive the car for you, make money for you but you cannot have someone to bear sickness for you. Material things lost can be found. But there is one thing that can never be found when it is lost – Life. Treasure Love for your family, love for your spouse, love for your friends. Treat yourself well. Cherish others.” - SJ

EVIL CANNOT BE TRULY DESTROYED.

"The threat of evil is ever present. We can contain it as long as we stay vigilant, but it can never truly be destroyed. - Lorraine Warren (Annabelle, the movie)


ONLY THE POOR WISH THEY HAD STUFF?

“I’m not that interested in material things. As long as I find a good bed that I can sleep in, that’s enough.” - Nicolas Berggruem, the homeless billionaire.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

SUICIDE, IN A CATHEDRAL!

A faithful "parishioner" tired of living in the global economic meltdown, believing that God is all forgiving, went into a church, knelt down in front of a cross at the alter and blew his brains out. Before he pulled the trigger, he prayed God to please forgive him what he is about to do and then a cracking-pop sent him out of this world. Icheoku asks, would God forgive such an act? Also what types of sin does God forgive?
According to our reading and understanding of the scripture and Christianity, God forgives only an already-committed sin (past-sin) but not a yet to be committed sin (future sin). God does not forgive a prospective sin as nothing has, by then, be done to warrant His forgiveness. Suicide is only an act upon completion, hence a suicide-intendee has not done any transgression for which to ask for or receive a forgiveness of sin? Upon commission, such suicide is no longer alive to so ask for forgiveness and hence no such petition really went before God, strictly speaking. On this premise therefore, this parishioner will not likely be forgiven if our understanding of the teachings of Christianity is good enough.

But the question needing an urgent answer is, is suicide really a sin? The 6th commandment says "thou shall not kill" but was silent on the taking of one's own life; so the act forbidden by God is the depriving of another of his or her right to life. It therefore appears that if one chooses out of his or her free volition, to terminate his/her own life, that no sin was committed in doing so? This is correlative to individuals right to property of which one's own life could be subsumed to belong to that individual. This argument is the single most cogent reason why a successful suicide is not a crime known to law; admitted that some jurisdictions might compel medical observation or institutionalisation for its attempt. Logical? It is debatable, depending on one's christian faith as well as morality.

The church chosen by this suicide to display his bloody cranial-content was the Crystal Cathedral of Reverend Robert H. Schuller in Anaheim, Orange County, California, United States of America. The man in his forties shot and killed himself in front of a cross inside the televangelist church on Wednesday, February 18, 2009. Before carrying out his carefully orchestrated exit from this earth, inside the temple of the Most High, the man handed a note and his driver’s license to an usher, then in a piety-manner, walked to the cross, knelt down as if in prayer and shot himself in the head. The usher at the sanctuary, confirmed that she greeted the man when he entered and that he handed her a note and two identity cards, with instruction that “You may want this.”
The glass-walled 10,000-member Crystal Cathedral, has been described as the Ark of Noah, magnificent, grandiose, edifying and opulent; and is home to the “Hour of Power” evangelism world-wide broadcast.

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